> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
>
>
>
> I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is
> infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well,
> sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing.
>
> Or it could be that it's a coincidence that as soon as I asked other
> developers to install cywin they all got it as well, and it
> may also be
> just a coincidence that after installing a fresh copy of
> everything and
> rebooted and all was *almost* fine (because some commands
> -like ls.exe-
> didn't install), but my machine instantly rebooted when I
> tried to run
> the cygwin setup the second time.
If you had run a file with Klez in it, you would know *all* about it.
Vshield/Norton would have been disabled, and many exe's would be
infected.
To the best of my knowledege Setup.exe is clean - I run mcafee and am
very careful when uploading new releases.
Rob
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